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The Los Angeles Clippers, when they study scouting video these days, may want to look extra closely at the Golden State Warriors of 2015-16.

Not to see so much how to launch 3-pointers or grab rebounds, but more about how to carry yourself as the NBA’s best team.

Sure, I know the Warriors didn’t wind up repeating as NBA champions, even after a 73-9 record; they went to Game 7 of the NBA Finals before losing to the Cleveland Cavaliers. But during the regular season, Golden State broke the Chicago Bulls’ 1995-96 record of 72-10 and it takes a special kind of team to do something like that.

No one is saying the Clippers have the ability to match the Warriors’ record of last season, but there are a number of people saying the Clippers are the best team of this season.

Coach Doc Rivers, however, isn’t one of them. He discourages all talk of the subject and why shouldn’t he? The Clippers have had very respectable seasons the last few years, but they haven’t been able to make any headway in the playoffs, thanks partly to the success of the Warriors.

Also, nobody wins championships in November. The Clippers haven’t even played a fifth of the season yet. The only people really talking about which team is the best in the NBA right now is, frankly, people like me.

But it’s difficult to resist the temptation of hyperbole after what the Clippers have done so far. Through their first 11 games, they had outscored their opposition by 183 points, which, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, was the fourth-best margin in NBA history, ranking behind only the 1996-97 Bulls (212), the 1964-65 Celtics (194) and the 1971-72 Bucks (193).

The Clippers are a long way from making anyone’s best-team claims come true. Even if they wind up with the best record, nobody will feel like anything was accomplished if the team doesn’t break past its second-round playoff barrier.

Besides, it isn’t even Thanksgiving yet. The NBA season really doesn’t exist until Christmas Day. That’s when you can start paying attention.

THE WEEK JUST PAST

Now, while I practice saying “Luc Mbah a Moute,” let’s take a look at the week just past:

The Oakland Raiders “hosted” the Houston Texans before a packed Azteca Stadium in Mexico City on Monday night. Let’s hope they get back home before that wall gets put up on the border.

Apparently, the NFL and the Raiders are big stuff in Mexico and it’s thanks primarily to former quarterback Jim Plunkett and former coach Tom Flores, both Hispanics.

It makes sense that the Texans would have some fans in Mexico, but apparently the teams that have the most fans in Mexico are the Dallas Cowboys and the Pittsburgh Steelers.

USC has truly raised its football season up out of the pits, but the idea that the Trojans could possibly end up being in the College Football Playoff is ludicrous. Even the idea they could be in the Pacific-12 championship game would take some doing.

Still, USC — and particularly quarterback Sam Darnold — had a remarkable game against UCLA on Saturday night. It seemed every time the Trojans faced a tricky third-down situation, Darnold threw a key pass for a first down or a touchdown.

It’s strange and kind of sad to see a healthy Tony Romo standing on the sideline for the Cowboys, wistfully watching the man he lost his job to, Dak Prescott.

By the way, Prescott may be the NFL’s best quarterback ever to be named Dak.

Romo read a tear-jerking statement to the Dallas media last week. “Injured two years in a row and now in the mid-30s,” he said in part, “the press is whispering, everyone has doubts, you've spent your career working to get here. Now we have to start all over. You almost feel like an outsider. Coaches are sympathetic, but they still have to coach and you’re not there. It’s a dark place. Probably the darkest it’s ever been. You’re sad and down and out and you ask yourself, why did this have to happen? It’s in this moment you find out who you really are and what you’re really about.”

Dallas fans being what they are, however, barely remember Romo at all.

Major League Baseball is considering increasing team roster size from 25 to 26 while limiting the September call-up number to 28 instead of 40. The players union is said to be willing to give up temporary call-up time in September for more permanent full-time status.

Mike Trout was named American League MVP last week for the second time in his five years with the Angels. There may be more such awards in his future, but for him to win it playing for a team that was 74-88 is downright sensational.